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 Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:57 pm
I just recently met this guy who is my grandpas caretaker at this retirement home. He's Gay, a female impersonator and one of the COOLEST people i've ever met.
Last weekend he was assaulted by a man who lives by the apartments.
Our town... a little redneck hick town FULL of people who are racist, sexist, prejudice... and those people who express it openly don't usually get convicted.
his assaulter is the son of the Sheriff. He got off easy. in fact he didn't even get sentenced.
I want to fight it.
help!
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:01 pm
Well... report it to whoever has control over the sheriff? If they don't listen, goto their boss and so on until someone takes notice?
Sorry, I'm not much help. sweatdrop
And feel free to swear in here, I don't think anyone minds. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:25 pm
neoncode Well... report it to whoever has control over the sheriff? If they don't listen, goto their boss and so on until someone takes notice? Sorry, I'm not much help. sweatdrop And feel free to swear in here, I don't think anyone minds. 3nodding i like your sig btw. Yeah. I mean i don't know. I'm in a real activist mood. A lot of that crap happens in this town its really easy for people to get away with s**t like that... I want to put a stop to that... especially crimes against LGBT. you know? like a revolutionaryu change in this area. even though i might as well go out and get myself shot right now. its literally that bad. I want to change it sooner than it'll take for them all to die off. wink
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:44 pm
What state are you in? Because I know that a couple states count anti-GLBT rimes as hate crimes, including New York. If you live in one of the red states, you're most likely SoL.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:25 pm
I live in California.
He's fighting it but its hard in our town to get any fair treatment if you're not like... them... mad
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:43 pm
When all else fails, go to the media. Bring up the information, make people aware. Justice must be served, and people in power have no authority to disrupt fair and balanced trials. This is probably why I'm opposed to judicial immunity.
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:44 pm
yeah he called channel 10 but so far i haven't heard any changes.
basically its just one BIG s**t hole right now sad
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:15 am
SubHumanRemains yeah he called channel 10 but so far i haven't heard any changes. basically its just one BIG s**t hole right now sad What about the gay media in your area? I don't know how it works in Amereica, but do you have a gay newspaper in your state or something? They might be more helpful.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:14 pm
girl_no_13 SubHumanRemains yeah he called channel 10 but so far i haven't heard any changes. basically its just one BIG s**t hole right now sad What about the gay media in your area? I don't know how it works in Amereica, but do you have a gay newspaper in your state or something? They might be more helpful. yeah i can bring it up at my GSA meetings or contact PFLAG but besides that we have no other LGBT groups... he has a prelim tomorrow... we'll see how things go. if it starts to turn to s**t then i'll get involved, call the new stations and crap. yeah. frustration....
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:29 pm
Tell the guy to sue. If he loses, appeal on the condition of prejudice and the guy getting special treatment due to the fact he is the sheriffs(sp?) son. It will go up the court system and you can probably keep appealing until it gets somewhere that can help like the state supreme court or something
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:26 pm
everythings been bumped to May...
And his charges i think are damage to personal property, assault, and hate crime... and a couple others but there are people who are working to get a fair trial so i tihnk its getting better.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:40 pm
ach well theres not much you can do over this one =
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:19 pm
sure there is...
but There's nothing i can do until May at least.
If he gets off easy... I will do something.
we'll see smile
I'm finding it'd be easier now that i'm out to my parents to do stuff like GSA meetings and protests and stuff... I'm finding it to be very beneficial. rolleyes
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:22 am
Omg...
I never know what to say in situations like that because I'm just so angry and depressed.
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:53 pm
yeah so the guy who assaulted him had like restraining orders against him.
and he broke them.
he flipped my friend off and yelled at him and now he's going to jail :]
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